Steve Andriole
While these countries are deservedly proud of their rankings, they should also be fearful: the greater a country’s digital maturity, the greater its vulnerability. This simple equation makes the US, the UK, Japan and other digitally competitive countries far more vulnerable to cyberwarfare than those that are digitally underdeveloped. This irony is not to be discounted.
Is Anyone Home?
We’ve seen this movie before. In-your-face indicators of trends swirling around and many, if not most, of the swirlees in denial. The most recent examples include business disruptions (Blackberries, Blockbuster, Toys-R-Us), political disruptions (Brexit, China), and technological disruptions (social media, autonomous vehicles, augmented reality).
Most disruptions happen faster than anyone expects. We’ve been in a serious cyberwar now for well over a decade. But how much have you heard about it? Can you say where it’s being waged and who’s fighting whom? Can you describe what cyberwarfare weapons are being used to wage cyberwars? Can you identify who the cyberwarfare superpowers are? Do you know who’s winning?
Is Anyone MADD Yet?
Remember MAD – Mutually Assured Destruction? MAD protects the world from nuclear Armageddon simply because of unacceptable retribution. If you attack me, as the doctrine goes, I will attack you, and we both die. Everyone understands the inevitable outcome of global nuclear war, so no one starts one. While new actors challenge the MAD doctrine from time to time, the world has avoided nuclear war since the original MAD doctrine was defined.
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